A week ago, I went on and bought the raisoo apple peel that would turn my ipod touch into a dual-sim phone! Just what I wanted. I thought of buying a dual sim phone instead but decided I must go with the peel since I got an ipod touch to start with and I dont want another gadget to carry.
I ordered online, paid for shipping and custom duties totalling to around 8K pesos. Waited for like a week since DHL did not deliver on holidays and weekends. While I was waiting for it, I jailbreak (or is it jailbroke) my ipod touch. Luckily, the untethered iOS5.0.1 become available (thanks to pod2g) and I was already on 5.0.1 so the jailbreaking process is pretty straightforward.
It was my first time to perform a jailbreak, before actually doing it I searched the web for tips and pitfalls that I may encounter. The scariest one was that it could potentially make my ipod a pricey paper weight. Thankfully that did not happen (or I'm dead - figuratively) and the jailbreaking process succeeded without a glitch (there were minor glitches but ipod came out of it alive!).
Going back to the peel, finally it arrived (I have it delivered to the office). I was very excited. I bought an extra sim just for the occasion. I opened the peel and inserted the sims in and inserted my ipod. Wow! the ipod touch finally become a dual-sim phone! I can text, I can call and most of all it is conveniently in one device. The wonders of technology!
However, not all is perfect and glittery and as expected. Made from China (or more precisely designed from China), I should have known that quality might (and is) a problem. The first one that obviously defeats the whole purpose of having a dual sim is that when 2 sims are inserted, the 2nd sim seems to receive the texts a little late (around 11 minutes after it was sent). The more annoying thing is when a message arrives, the peel reboots itself (more like refresh with an irritating pop up that says "power on"). I hope that this is a software problem that can be remedied by future software upgrades and not hardware inherent. This does not seem to happen when only 1 sim is inserted.
Even though the peel has its own battery, I noticed that the ipod itself is draining its battery faster than what I observed before. Luckily though the peel can charge the ipod so it helps a bit. I am just being skeptical whether this mechanism can damage the ipod touch's battery life all the more. I just hope that its not.
Now that I have the peel, I sort of regretted buying it and wish that I instead bought a decent dual sim real phone from cellphone makers (like from Samsung or Nokia), but hey I have it and it's not that all bad, I just got to live with it's imperfectness.
This would be the last thing I will buy that is from China and designed by China without supervision from reputable companies (because let's face it, almost everything now is made from China).
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